By the Numbers: How Google Compute Engine Stacks Up To Amazon EC2

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday March 17, 2013 @03:42AM from the head-to-head dept.

vu1986 writes "Google launched its EC2 rival, Google Compute Engine, last June, it set some high expectations. Sebastian Standil's team at Scalr put the cloud infrastructure service through its paces — and were pleasantly surprised at what they found. A note about our data: The benchmarks run to collect the data presented here were taken twice a day, over four days, then averaged. When a high variance was observed, we took note of it and present it here as intervals for which 80 percent of observed data points fall into."

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A non techy benefit of Amazon by ethicalcannibal · 2013-03-17 03:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Just when you start relying on it, Amazon won't shut it down.
1. Re:A non techy benefit of Amazon by mybecq · 2013-03-17 03:53 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Just when you start relying on it, Amazon won't shut it down.
  Not intentionally, anyway.
Re:8 samples is hardly useful by Anne+Thwacks · 2013-03-17 07:47 · Score: 4, Funny

I am not convinced: what if they were unusually small ants?

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